The young love and cherish people and places from which they receive the skills and the emotional support which enable them to mak...e it in the world or to meet their basic human needs. The same people and places are often the first recipients of the frustration and anger--violence, vandalism, disrespect--of young people who are not making it well in the world. I suspect that this is the reason that personal and school property violence is increasing more rapidly than school burglary and dropout rates.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective family ... tells us that those wh...o need help are ultimately inadequate. And it tells us that for a family to need help--or at least to admit it publicly--is to confess failure. Similarly, to give help, however generously, is to acknowledge the inadequacy of the recipients and indirectly to condemn them, to stigmatize them, and even to weaken what impulse they have toward self-sufficiency.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. Active adherence to these prin...ciples, however, has always been considered un-American. We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I tell parents ... when they are the recipients of public humiliation inflicted by their irrational toddlers or preschoolers, and ...they are being stared at by clucking strangers, to repeat this mantra: "I do not know these people. They are not my friends. I will never see them again."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creato...rs but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »